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Postcolonialism
This chapter distinguishes different strands within (post)colonialism since the immediate postwar. It accounts for the varying disciplinary...
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The Importance of Agriculture in Medieval Jewish Life: The Case of Crete
This article describes how Jews in medieval Crete were involved in, and knowledgeable about, agricultural practices. It pushes back against a...
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Transitions: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries
This chapter provides a listing of major events in the North American Jewish communities from October 2020 to September 2021, a list of persons...
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Chapter 6 Academic Resources
This chapter provides lists with city locations, degrees offered, and websites for Jewish Studies Programs, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Programs,...
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Der Gründerkrach 1873
Die untersuchten Gründerkrach-Romane, Sachbücher und journalistischen Darstellungen stellen Ursachen und Folgen des Gründerkrachs vor, setzen sich...
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Challenges and opportunities for sustainable valorization of rare earth metals from anthropogenic waste
Progressively and projected integration of rare earth metals (REMs) in modern technologies, especially in the clean energy, consumer electronics,...
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In Search of Documentation: Nella Rost and the Jewish Historical Commission in Stockholm
This study outlines the activities of Nella Rost and her Jewish historical commission in Stockholm (1946–1951) and shows the challenges and...
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1848 and Beyond: Jews in the National and International Politics of Secularism and Revolution
This chapter argues that the presence of Jewish politicians in positions of public authority during the revolutions of 1848 cemented the synergy...
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Non-restitutable Books and the Library That Never Was
This chapter continues with the theme of confiscated books by examining the short-lived plan to build a World Jewish Library in Europe, under the...
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Transitions: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries
This chapter provides a listing of major events in the North American Jewish communities from June 2019 to August 2020, a list of persons honored by...
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Where to Turn? How One Italian Rabbi Understood Ashkenaz, ca. 1600
This study focuses on a member of the secondary rabbinic elite in northern Italy around the year 1600, Rabbi Jacob Heilbronn (d. 1625). Based on an...
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Unsettling the “Jewish Question” from the Margins of Europe: Spanish Liberalism and Sepharad
This chapter demonstrates the centrality of “Sepharad” to Spanish liberals and their Jewish interlocutors in debates over religious tolerance, from...
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Improving the prognosis of pancreatic cancer: insights from epidemiology, genomic alterations, and therapeutic challenges
Pancreatic cancer, notorious for its late diagnosis and aggressive progression, poses a substantial challenge owing to scarce treatment alternatives....
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When the Rabbi’s Soul Entered a Pig: Melchiorre Palontrotti and His Giudiata against the Jews of Rome
This essay analyzes an unpublished manuscript of a giudiata , a poem mocking Jewish funerals that was written and performed in Rome in the...
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Antecedents of Fathers’ Stress in Fatherhood
This chapter concerns prospective fathers’ social background, relational experiences, mental health during pregnancy, and caregiving in the infant’s...
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From Thieves to Martyrs: The Story of Two Jews from Early Modern Moravia
This paper focuses on the story of two Jewish men who were convicted of theft and executed in Prostějov, Moravia, in the spring of 1684. Although the...
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Placing the Blame: What If “They” REALLY Are Responsible?
The new coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, has resurrected a number of historical and sociological problems associated with naming and blaming...
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Introduction
The question of whether international criminal courts and tribunals (ICTs) ought to write historical narratives is not new. However, it has gained...